Re: pgbench on mingw needs fflush

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:

> Can we distinguish mingw case from others so that we could ifdef out
> the extra fflush()?
> > The buffered stderr might be a bug of mingw

After a little research, I found that MSDN says the buffered stderr is
a specifications on Windows somehow, not a bug.

setvbuf() is better solution for the problem.
This is more simple and no need to use ifdef.

*** pgbench.c.orig Mon Jan 22 11:17:30 2007
--- pgbench.c Tue Mar 13 17:01:12 2007
*************** main(int argc, char **argv)
*** 1184,1189 ****
--- 1184,1192 ----

char val[64];

+ /* stderr is buffered on Win32. */
+ setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
+
if ((env = getenv("PGHOST")) != NULL && *env != '\0')
pghost = env;
if ((env = getenv("PGPORT")) != NULL && *env != '\0')

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center